Massi (disambiguation), Messe (disambiguation), Messih, or Messy (disambiguation).
 Messi playing for Barcelona |
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Lionel Andrés Messi | ||
| Date of birth | 24 June 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Rosario, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Barcelona | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995–2000 | Newell's Old Boys | ||
| 2000–2003 | Barcelona | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2003–2004 | Barcelona C | 8 | (5) |
| 2004–2005 | Barcelona B | 22 | (6) |
| 2004– | Barcelona | 216 | (173) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004̣–2005 | Argentina U20 | 18 | (14) |
| 2008 | Argentina U23 | 5 | (2) |
| 2005– | Argentina | 71 | (27) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:30, 26 August 2012 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:30, 16 August 2012 (UTC) |
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By the age of 21, Messi had received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year in 2009 he won both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year, and won the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 and 2011. He also won the 2010–11 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. Messi is the fourth football player to win three Ballons d'Or, after Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten and the second player to win three consecutive Ballons d'Or, after Michel Platini. His playing style and small stature have drawn comparisons to Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his "successor".
Messi has won five La Ligas, two Copas del Rey, five Supercopas de España, three Champions Leagues, two Super Cups and two Club World Cups. In 2012, Messi made UEFA Champions League history by becoming the first player to score five goals in one match, in a 7–1 win against Bayer Leverkusen. With two goals in the next round against Milan, he matched José Altafini's record of 14 goals in a single Champions League season. He also became the first player to top-score in four successive Champions League campaigns. He set the world record for most goals scored in a season during the 2011–12 season, with 73 goals. In the same season, he set the current goalscoring record in a single La Liga season, scoring 50 goals.
Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship with six goals. In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the Copa América tournament the following year, in which he was elected young player of the tournament. In 2008, he won his first international honour, an Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football team. Sportspro has rated Lionel Messi as the 3rd most marketable athlete in the world.
This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is dos Santos and the second or paternal family name is Aveiro.
 Ronaldo playing for Real Madrid |
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro | ||
| Date of birth | 5 February 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Funchal, Madeira, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Real Madrid | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–1995 | Andorinha | ||
| 1995–1997 | Nacional | ||
| 1997–2002 | Sporting CP | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2002–2003 | Sporting CP | 25 | (3) |
| 2003–2009 | Manchester United | 196 | (84) |
| 2009– | Real Madrid | 103 | (112) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001–2002 | Portugal U17 | 9 | (6) |
| 2002–2003 | Portugal U20 | 5 | (3) |
| 2003 | Portugal U21 | 6 | (1) |
| 2004 | Portugal U23 | 3 | (1) |
| 2003– | Portugal | 96 | (36) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:04, 26 August 2012 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13:43, 16 August 2012 (UTC) |
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Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, before moving to C.D. Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal. Ronaldo caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who signed him for £12.24 million (€15 million) in 2003. The following season, Ronaldo won his first club honour, the FA Cup. He also played at Euro 2004 with Portugal and scored his first international goal in the opening game of the tournament against Greece, in addition to helping Portugal reach the final.
Ronaldo was the first player to win all four main PFA and FWA awards, doing so in 2007. In 2008, Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or. He placed second in the Ballon d'Or in 2007, 2009, and 2011. He was awarded the European Golden Shoe in both 2008 and 2011. In 2008, he won three of the four main PFA and FWA trophies and was named the FIFPro Player of the Year, World Soccer Player of the Year, Onze d'Or, and the FIFA World Player of the Year. In 2007 and 2008, Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year. Ronaldo was the inaugural winner of the FIFA Puskás Award in 2009.
Ronaldo holds numerous former and current scoring records, including records for most goals scored in a season for Real Madrid, most goals scored in a season in La Liga, most goals scored per minute in La Liga, first top European league player to reach 40 goals in a single season in two consecutive years, fastest Real Madrid player to reach one hundred league goals, and the first player ever to score against every team in a single season in La Liga.
In this name, the family name is Nazário de Lima, not Lima.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima | ||
| Date of birth | 18 September 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.83 metres (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1989 | Tennis Club Valqueire | ||
| 1989–1990 | Social Ramos Club | ||
| 1990–1993 | São Cristóvão | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1993–1994 | Cruzeiro | 47 | (44) |
| 1994–1996 | PSV | 57 | (54) |
| 1996–1997 | Barcelona | 49 | (47) |
| 1997–2002 | Inter Milan | 99 | (59) |
| 2002–2007 | Real Madrid | 177 | (104) |
| 2007–2008 | A.C. Milan | 20 | (9) |
| 2009–2011 | Corinthians | 69 | (35) |
| Total | 518 | (352) | |
| National team | |||
| 1993 | Brazil U17 | 7 | (5) |
| 1996 | Brazil U23 | 8 | (6) |
| 1994-2006, 2011 | Brazil | 98 | (62) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (Rio de Janeiro Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁo̞ˈnau̯du luˈiʒ nɐˈzaɾju dʒⁱ ˈɫimɐ]; born 18 September 1976) is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is considered by experts and fans as one of the greatest football players of all time. In 2012, he was voted Goal.com's "Player of the Decades" in an online poll, gathering 29.55% of all votes. He won his first Ballon d'Or as the European Footballer of the Year in 1997 and won the award again in 2002. He is one of only three men to have won the FIFA Player of the Year award three times, along with Zinedine Zidane and Lionel Messi.
Considered by many as the most complete striker in the past 30 years,
in 2007, he was named as one of the best starting 11 of all-time by France Football and was named to the FIFA 100, a list of the greatest footballers compiled by Pelé. In 2010, he was voted Goal.com's "Player of the Decade" in an online poll, gathering 43.63 percent of all votes and was also included as centre forward in the "Team of the Decade".
On 23 February 2010, Ronaldo announced that he would retire after the
2011 season, signing a two-year contract extension with the Corinthians
at the same time.
Ronaldo has played for Brazil in 98 international matches, scoring 62 goals. He was a part of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 and 2002 World Cups. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo became the highest goalscorer in the history of the World Cup with his fifteenth goal, surpassing Gerd Müller's previous record of 14. He is the only player to have won the World Cup Golden Ball and Golden Boot
in separate tournaments. Having suffered a string of serious injuries
throughout his career, Ronaldo retired on 14 February 2011, citing pain and hypothyroidism as the reasons for his premature retirement.
 Diego Maradona in 2012 |
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| Personal information | ||||||||||||
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| Full name | Diego Armando Maradona | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 30 October 1960 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder, Second striker | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Estrella Roja | |||||||||||
| 1970–1974 | Los Cebollitas | |||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Argentinos Juniors | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | |||||||||
| 1976–1981 | Argentinos Juniors | 167 | (115) | |||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Boca Juniors | 40 | (28) | |||||||||
| 1982–1984 | Barcelona | 36 | (22) | |||||||||
| 1984–1991 | Napoli | 188 | (81) | |||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Sevilla | 26 | (5) | |||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Newell's Old Boys | 5 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1995–1997 | Boca Juniors | 30 | (7) | |||||||||
| Total | 492 | (258) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1977–1994 | Argentina | 91 | (34) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | Mandiyú de Corrientes | |||||||||||
| 1995 | Racing Club | |||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Argentina | |||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Al Wasl FC | |||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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He is the only player in football history who set world-record contract fees twice. The first, when he was transferred to Barcelona for a then world record £5m and the second, when he was transferred to Napoli for another record fee £6.9m. Over the course of his professional club career Maradona played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla and Newell's Old Boys. In his international career, playing for Argentina, he earned 91 caps and scored 34 goals.
He played in four FIFA World Cup tournaments, including the 1986 tournament, where he captained Argentina and led them to their victory over West Germany in the final, winning the Golden Ball award as the tournament's best player. In that same tournament's quarterfinal round, he scored both goals in a 2–1 victory over England that entered football history, though for two different reasons. The first goal was via an unpenalized handball known as the "Hand of God", while the second goal followed a 60 m (66 yd) dribble past five England players, voted "The Goal of the Century" by FIFA.com voters in 2002.
Maradona is considered one of the sport's most controversial and newsworthy figures. He was suspended from football for 15 months in 1991 after failing a drug test, for cocaine, in Italy, and he was sent home from the 1994 World Cup in the USA after testing positive for ephedrine. After retiring from playing on his 37th birthday in 1997, he gained weight, suffered ill health and the effects of cocaine use. In 2005, a stomach stapling operation helped control his weight gain, and he overcame his cocaine addiction. His outspoken manners have sometimes put him at odds with journalists and sport executives. Although he had little managerial experience, he became head coach of the Argentina national team in November 2008, and held the job for eighteen months, until his contract expired after the 2010 World Cup.
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